EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — At the start of the 2014 season, New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin had very lofty goals for his team to achieve by its bye week. "I was hoping we would be 7-0," he said with a straight face. Instead, the Giants are sitting at 3-4 in third place in the NFC East. They have suffered back-to-back losses to two division rivals, the Eagles and the Cowboys, losing by a combined 58-21 in those two games. Stats and record aside, perhaps the most unsettling thing about the Giants at this moment is that the team doesn't seem to have a clearly defined identity. "We are probably somewhere between the kind of night we had in Washington and...

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"I was hoping we would be 7-0," he said with a straight face.
Instead, the Giants...

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